The Eleventh Annual Kolb Senior Scholars Colloquium with the theme "Political Corrections: Social Control through Word and Image in Antiquity"

2:00 Professor C. Brian Rose, Kolb Society of Fellows Faculty Coordinator

Welcome and Introduction

2:15 Dr. Jane A. Hill, Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rowan University

Symbols before the Crown: Reading Early Egypt’s Iconography of Power

2:45 Dr. Josh Jeffers, Fellow

Research Specialist, Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project, Penn Museum

The Assyrian Propaganda Machine: Shaping the Past Through Text and Image

3:15 Break

3:30 Dr. Matt Waters, Fellow

Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire 

By The Will of Ahuramazda: The Conjunction between Royal and Divine in Achaemenid Persia

4:00: Dr. Simon Martin, Guest Speaker

Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections, American Section, Penn Museum

Strategies in Stone: Rhetoric and Realpolitik in Classic Maya Politics

4:45 Final Questions and Comments

Additional information is on the Kolb website (www.kolbsociety.com)